tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90376481448943036422024-03-19T08:21:36.785-04:00LLOSOMollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494163576518468276noreply@blogger.comBlogger887125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-84542970850569422842014-03-18T10:15:00.000-04:002014-03-18T10:15:00.897-04:00VOZ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.madebyvoz.com/">VOZ </a>is an ethical fashion brand working with Mapuche indians in Southern Chile to create their super luxe, super chic wares. I'd known of the brand but hadn't really seen their clothes in person until Capsule last month. I was blown away with the quality and overall aesthetic. They're doing it right...so, so good!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-19953367576808951242014-02-23T12:46:00.002-05:002014-02-23T12:47:49.123-05:00Money<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Did you know that cowry shells were the first form of currency in Africa? Our cowry necklaces are back in stock just in time for SPRING!!! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-62631547474102033712014-02-17T13:38:00.003-05:002014-02-17T13:39:22.294-05:00Handprint<div style="text-align: center;">
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Love this <a href="http://www.eco-age.com/handprint-2/">short documentary </a>by Mary Nighy, commissioned by eco-fashion advocate and <a href="http://www.eco-age.com/">Eco-Age</a> creative director, Livia Firth. Sensual, beautiful, and powerful. </div>
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The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/page/magazine-index.html">Wall Street Journal Magazine's </a>seasonal fashion issues are quickly becoming my favorite. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579320541126488218?ref=SB10001424052702303933104579306602420176352">This editiorial</a> featuring Andreea Diaconu on the Pacific coast of Mexico is beyond dreamy. Mexico you might be the most perfect backdrop:)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-16779120431012481062014-02-11T19:59:00.000-05:002014-02-11T19:59:02.506-05:00Louise Dahl Wolfe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love everything about these photos by Louise Dahl Wolfe. Wolfe was a fashion photographer most famous for her work for Harper's Bazaar in the 50's with editor Diana Vreeland. The clothes, the sun, the exotic locations, I want it all please. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-80914231585864701812014-02-06T11:21:00.001-05:002014-02-06T17:59:40.831-05:00Peru: Tour de textilesPart of working with artisans is that unless you are a larger company, heavy in monetary and time resources it's very difficult to work with an artisan group from the ground up. Non-profits, NGO's, and private consultants exist in the global handcrafts industry to provide artisan capacity building and market linkage allowing businesses like mine the opportunity to collaborate with them to produce their collections. Of course there are plenty of businesses that work with one country/community and are therefore able to invest their time/resources into that one community. Proud Mary exists with the goal of providing a global exploration of textiles and because we choose to work in numerous parts of the world we have to depend on these organizations to get our artisan partners to a point where they are export ready; able to speak English, able to communicate via email, able to consolidate/ship orders, and willing to collaborate creatively. We've been super lucky to find great facilitators in each country where we work and owe a lot to the Non-profits and NGO's that have connected us to our producing groups. All that being said the case with our gal in Peru is one that this group was not yet ready to export, they are still in need of the proper business training and willingness to cooperate in order to become export ready. I had high hopes that we could get on the same page during our brief visit to their coop but that was not the case. I am not completely naive to think that a 4 day workshop would get them into shape but I was at least hoping for a verbal agreement that they and I would begin to put the wheels in motion. When our verbal agreement sort of fell apart I took my trip to Peru as a discovery trip to see exactly what type of textiles they produce and what Proud Mary's production options were.<br />
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Part of the reason I love what I do is the hunt, the adventure, the
excitement. To produce in this way (handcrafted by global artisans)
can be extremely frustrating. Things go wrong more than they go right.
Artisans disappear, cotton supplies dry up, thread companies close
their doors before they've given you your threads you've been waiting on
for a month, customs offices are ransacked in coups prevented your
shipment from leaving West Africa, weavers go into a month long mourning
over the death of their husbands, and studios are destroyed in freak
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The main reason for my trip to Peru was to meet and work with a group of
weavers in the Northern highlands of Peru. I have worked with them
from afar to produce our <a href="http://proudmary.bigcartel.com/product/pima-fringe-tote">Pima Fringe Totes</a> (which I adore). Working
with an American girl who befriended these weavers, I managed to produce
a very small collection of naturally dyed wool and cotton products with
these badass weavers. Their work is stunning and I desperately wanted
to expand on the collection and get these women more work. I would be
working with a new facilitator in Peru that has a lot of experience with
artisan development, training, etc. We would go to a small town
outside of Cajamarca, a mid-size town 10 hours North of Lima and do a
workshop, training, and development new product with this group, it was
going to be awesome. Upon arriving in Cajamarca things started to feel a
little weird. At over 9,000 ft the town was much colder than Lima,
greyer than Lima, and the people a little harsher. We arrived a few
days before our meetings were to happen and decided to explore the town
and outlying areas. We had heard about the Incan Baths, hot springs
outside of town which sounded amazing. We were going to sit in the
thermal baths and drink red wine while gazing up at the Andes. Pretty
sweet. Sweet, until we got there and were gawked at by hundreds of
Peruvians wondering why these gringas were waiting in line to go their
bath house. The beautiful baths in the picture were not accessible but
the private bath tubs were. So <a href="http://oliviaraejames.com/">Olivia</a> and I basically took a hot bath
together. Lovely. The next day my new facilitator met us from Lima to
make the trek out to the town where we'd meet the head of the weaving
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We got to the village around 1 that afternoon. The roads were super curvy and we all felt a little sick from altitude and our female cab driver driving like a bat out of hell through the middle of nowhere. We had a few hours to spare before meeting the head of the coop so we ate some Trucha (fried trout) and rice and the obligatory bowl of corn nuts, went on a walk in the pouring rain where we were met on a swinging bridge by a group of 7 Peruvian men who had definitely not come into contact with American women and absolutely not 3 of them in the pouring rain on a swinging bridge in their middle of nowhere town, and then visited a cemetery where the doors were shut behind us. Finally heading back to the "hotel" (not sure what it was) after our afternoon adventure to get our work things together to find out our lady wasn't back in town yet. So 5 more hours go by, another visit to the restaurant, a village-wide search for a cold beer, and brief encounters with wifi until we finally get a call that she was back in town. The 3 of us stroll over to her house around 8 pm. We had a really nice discussion about businesses, our working relationship, our needs, etc. agreeing that we did want to continue to work together and develop new product but there would be no meeting the other ladies, no workshop, no weaving together...bummer. She had not gotten everyone together and we had to leave in a day so it wouldn't be possible. We'd come a LONG way to find this out. The next morning we met our gal again to discuss design details and new samples that I wanted to put into production asap. This was not the way I saw this portion of the Peru adventure going but what could I do? I'd take what I could get. Not until returning to Lima did I realize that our gal would not respond to any of our emails or phone calls despite the fact that she had been excited to continue to work together. I guess we scared her off...I almost scared myself off. More of the adventure to come...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-41209154560314672272014-02-01T11:04:00.001-05:002014-02-01T14:31:22.584-05:00Sapeurs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sapeurs, Society of Elegant Persons of the Congo. A group of dapper men from Brazzaville, Congo, one of the most dangerous places in the world, teaching us there is no excuse to look like shit. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-76084985061061774902014-01-31T10:00:00.000-05:002014-01-31T19:51:11.244-05:00Bienvenidos (again)! Well hello there, it's been quite a while. With all the day to day duties that I have running Proud Mary I've lost touch with my blog. Just returning from an incredible trip to Peru reiterated 1)how much I love my job and 2)how I need to get better at sharing the Proud Mary story. I am often conflicted between "telling the story" and having our products tell the story themselves (result of dichotomous thinking). I fear "telling the story" will exploit our artisan partners but it doesn't have to be that way.<br />
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A part of me wishes that I was a foreign journalist, traveling to exotic lands to cover important stories such as war, political coups, refugee crises, etc. Textiles may not be a life or death subject matter BUT they do tell the story of a culture and through crafts development positive change/economic prosperity is possible. So, the moral of this little blurb is that it is my responsibility to share information because I can and because what we do affects more than aesthetics. I choose to start my business and work with global artisans for the human connection. Here's to sharing that connection to the best of my ability as my own kind of journalist:)<br />
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Lima. What a gem! This coastal city reminded me so much of California;
Santa Monica and Venice Beach to be exact. I loved the groms walking
through the city with their surfboards, bustling cafes, artisan markets,
Barranco (bohemian, colonial neighborhood), Ceviche, discovering Pisco
Sours, Christmas decorations in full effect a month after Christmas, and
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Stoked to be featured as a <a href="http://stfrank.com/design-guide/tastemakers/">tastemaker</a> for fantastic new company, <a href="http://stfrank.com/">St. Frank</a>. St. Frank sources traditional textiles from all over the globe and sells them as framed pieces of art. So far their collection features indigo from Mali, Otomi from Mexico, Suzani's from Uzbekistan, Senegalese weavings, Laotian tapestry weaving, and my favorite geometric <a href="http://shop.stfrank.com/collections/full-collection/products/anatol-kilim-i">Kilim</a> from Turkey. I loved the colors in this <a href="http://shop.stfrank.com/collections/full-collection/products/anatol-kilim-i">Kilim</a> and totally see it on the wall paired with our new Navajo pillow. Gorg! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-49474825341297113972013-05-06T09:00:00.000-04:002013-05-06T09:00:02.311-04:00D & A<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My newest textile obsession is Pojagi, patchwork wrapping from Korea. It's absolutely stunning and feels very modern and Mondrian'esque. I've started an intense search to find a source still making this. Any thoughts or leads send them my way! (all images from <a href="http://www.srithreads.com/">Sri Threads</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-65086892856423479262013-04-08T08:56:00.001-04:002013-04-08T08:56:04.213-04:00Doors of Cuzco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The best editorial I've ever seen. Kasia Struss shot by Mario Testino for Vogue Paris April 2013. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-60688548409989746912013-04-05T09:50:00.004-04:002013-04-05T09:50:48.450-04:00Quotable<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know, yeah, yeah, yeah...now is now, live in the moment, blah, blah, blah. Seriously, though I actually feel what that means now. I'm not preparing to live the life I want to live. It's happening right now. No do-overs. Just do.<br />
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Happy Weekend! (image from <a href="http://12stonehollowway.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-little-reminder.html">here</a>) Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-26007202975116083632013-04-02T10:30:00.002-04:002013-04-02T10:30:55.330-04:00Tassels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Proud Mary has long been an advocate for tassels. I consistently use them to embellish our pillows and bags so when I discovered these amazing tassel earrings from my friend's Instagram feed the other day I freaked out. They're so great and thankfully I'll be carrying them in the <a href="http://proudmary.bigcartel.com/category/market">Proud Mary Market</a> come May. They're made by a friend of mine living in Shanghai. She has impeccable style, is the author of the popular <a href="http://www.shanghaistylefile.com/">Shanghai Style File </a>blog, and is launching a line of the most incredible jackets I have ever seen this Fall (more on that later). </div>
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A few months ago I donated some money to support a documentary film, <a href="http://www.thisiscongo.com/">This is Congo</a>, on Kickstarter. I've been so busy the past few months that I've passed over their email updates on the project until today. The film is now being supported by <a href="http://worldview.cba.org.uk/">Worldview</a> and is going into post-production thanks to their funding. It's such a powerful, inspiring project that really put things into perspective for me this morning. It always comes at the right time, doesn't it? The situation in the Congo is so complex and incredibly interesting to me. Tribal issues, colonial history, and resources have plagued this stunningly beautiful country for a very long time. The best thing, seemingly, about this film is that it doesn't try to oversimplify the issues in the Congo but to educate the world about the many, complexities of the situation. Very excited to see this. (images from This is Congo website)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-71620372149295685812013-03-19T09:00:00.000-04:002013-03-19T09:00:01.250-04:00New Proud Mary Collection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So proud of this collection. <a href="http://www.proudmary.org/">Proud Mary</a> is now working in 5 countries; Niger, Morocco, Peru, Guatemala, and Mali with 12 cooperatives, and over 100 artisans. So amazing to be able to support these communities and for them to share with us their incredible talents. I'm constantly in awe! Something else I'm in awe over are these photographs and model we used for this shoot. <a href="http://oliviaraejames.com/">Olivia Rae James</a> took some beautiful photos and Dulaan (from <a href="http://xiaobaobiscuit.com/">XBB</a> in Charleston) could not have been more stunning. Thanks ladies! Check out our shop<a href="http://proudmary.bigcartel.com/"> here</a>! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-53888535541024089242013-03-13T10:09:00.000-04:002013-03-13T10:09:33.184-04:00Apiece Apart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.apieceapart.com/">Apiece Apart</a>, Spring 2013. Great. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-66599792129135242752013-03-11T19:22:00.002-04:002013-03-11T19:22:40.906-04:00Line Sander Johansen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stunning ceramics from <a href="http://objectandtotem.com/">Object and Totem</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-84699149094581700622013-03-05T08:30:00.000-05:002013-03-05T08:30:00.374-05:00Au Naturel <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Keeping it natural for Spring. (From top <a href="http://www.stuartweitzman.com/products/jazzygirl/?DepartmentId=378&DepartmentGroupId=-1&F_HeelHeight=5&F_All=Y">Stuart Weitzman</a>, <a href="http://www.mohawkgeneralstore.net/products/122962118">Roger Clergerie</a>, <a href="http://www.proudmary.org/">Proud Mary</a>-Coming Soon) </div>
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I've been a long time fan of <a href="http://www.grupohabita.mx/">Grupo Habita</a> so I was thrilled to check out in person a few of their projects last month. <a href="http://www.downtownmexico.com/">Downtown</a> is located in a renovated colonial gem in the Centro of Mexico City. Per usual it is a perfect (and unique) blend of modern and traditional design elements with just the right amount of texture. The building which houses the hotel has multiple restaurants (also as well designed), shops, and an incredible green (succulent) wall. DF, you are so dreamy...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-69607973305285682672013-03-01T11:09:00.003-05:002013-03-01T11:10:45.750-05:00Quotable<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Weekend! xo Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037648144894303642.post-14656247369226436152013-02-28T09:00:00.000-05:002013-02-28T09:00:10.553-05:00Mean Preen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm strangely, but strongly drawn to <a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2013RTW-PREEN">Preen by Thornton Bregazzi'</a>s Fall collection. Feels fresh and clean and the buckle shoes are sick! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0